Hello-
Here are steps someone else gave me to get my Tranzport working. This worked for me with Ardour 2.8.X. Please be advised this is a recompile of Ardour, and you may have to sort out your dependencies.
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You need two particular pieces. Download this patch:
http://linux-sound.org/Sconstruct.patch
Now download this git repo :
git clone git://git.teklibre.com/home/d/src/git/frontier
Btw, I dl the git sources to my ~/src directory, you’ll see why in a
moment. When you have the Ardour 2.8.4 source tree copy the patch to its
top directory and apply it:
cd ~/src/ardour-2.8.4/
patch -p0 <Sconstruct.patch
You should see a brief report if the patch is successful.
Go to ~/src/ardour-2.8.4/libs/surfaces and move or remove the tranzport
directory. Now link your git frontier directory to the Ardour source tree:
ln -s ~/src/ardour-2.8.4/libs/surfaces/frontier ~/src/frontier
Now run scons -h and set the kerneltranzport option to 1. It seems to
make no difference if you also select the regular tranzport option.
Compile and install.
You’ll probably need to create a udev entry in
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-tranzport.rules with this content:
# Frontier Designs Tranzport
KERNEL=="tranzport[0-9]", GROUP="audio"
If that doesn’t work try adding this instead to the permissions.rules
file in /etc/udev :
# Frontier tranzport
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="165b",
ATTRS{idProduct}==“8101”,MODE=“0666”, GROUP=“audio”, MODE==“0666”
Finally make sure you read the information here:
http://tracker.ardour.org/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=2521
If everything went well you can fire up Ardour and its boot messages
should report that the Tranzport is viable and the unit’s Link light
should be on. Let me know of any problems you encounter.